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One of the sillier comparisons I've heard.

 


You must have an exceptionally condescending view of people, to think that ANY of them believe this. My sympathies.

 

It's more like removing the asphalt from one end of a country road and laying it at the other, so people have to drive in the dirt at the beginning but have a smooth ride the rest of the way, instead of having a smooth ride all the way except for hitting bumpy parts at the end.

 

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PLC1's strange tirades aside, the purpose of DST is to have clocks showing closer to the same time when the sun comes up, winter or summer, while having the wide variation in time occur at sundown. Sunrise times are never exactly the same, obviously, but DST puts them closer to the same ballpark. This is one of the reasons why the turn-clocks-forward date and the turn-clocks-back date, should be exactly six months apart, not 8 and 4 as they now are.

 

I'd rather have DST than not have it; and I'd rather it create two equal 6-month period rather than an 8 and 4.


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